Famous Quotes - Tags - Night

  • ... never, walking away
    As light fails, to notice the first star
    Pulsing alone in a long... More
  • A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
    With silver claws and silver eye;
    And moveless fish... More
  • A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking... More
  • a spring night entered
    my mind through the tight-closed window.... More
  • And a sigh heaves from all the small things on earth,
    The books, the papers, the old garters... More
  • And all my days are trances,
    And all my nightly dreams
    Are where thy dark eye... More
  • And everywhere the stifling mass of night
    Swamps the bright nervous day, and puts it out. More
  • And in counterpoint, from other windows,
    the effort to be merry—ay, maracas!
    Msibilant,... More
  • and in moonlight she comes in her nudity,
    flashing breasts made of milk-water,
    flashing... More
  • And nightly under the simple stars
    As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, More
  • And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
    The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the... More
  • And turns the woe of Night,
    By its own craft, to a more rich delight. More
  • And we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o’ the night. More
  • Around, the night drops swiftly down
    Its veils; does not condemn
    Or praise the different... More
  • As for the nights I warn you the nights are dangerous
    The wind changes at night and the... More
  • As long as skies are blue, and fields are green
    Evening must usher night, night urge the... More
  • As night falls, every joy glows brighter. More
  • At middle night great cats with silver claws,
    Bodies of shadow and blind eyes like... More
  • At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly
    To the lone vale we loved when life... More
  • Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
    Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
    Sounds of... More
  • Before the last went, heavy with dew,
    Back to the place from which she came
    Where the... More
  • Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren’t turned properly; they come in askew, free... More
  • Black flowers burst out wherever the night has knelt. More
  • But this is your hour, and the power of darkness! More
  • By a route obscure and lonely,
    Haunted by ill angels only,
    Where an eidolon, named... More
  • By night an atheist half believes in a God. More
  • by night only crazy things
    like the full moon and the whippoorwill

    and us, are busy. More
  • Cats walk the floor at midnight; that enemy of fog,
    The moon, wraps the bedpost in receding... More
  • Come away, away children;
    Come children, come down!
    The hoarse wind blows... More
  • Come, civil night,
    Thou sober-suited matron all in black. More
  • Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-browed night.
    Give me my Romeo, and when I shall... More
  • Coming at last to night’s most thankful springs,
    I meet a runner’s image.... More
  • Dear, why should you command me to my rest,
    When now the night doth summon all to... More
  • Derk was the night as pich or as the cole,
    And at the windowe out she putte hir hole,
    And... More
  • Different rules apply when it gets this late. You know what I mean? It’s, like, after hours. More
  • Dread of night. Dread of not-night. More
  • Ere the bat hath flown
    His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons
    The... More
  • Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his... More
  • Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night. More
  • For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the... More
  • For the most part, there was no recognition of human life in the night; no human breathing was... More
  • For the night
    Shows stars and women in a better light. More
  • Green is the night and out of madness woven,
    The self-same madness of the astronomers
    And... More
  • Hark, all you ladies that do sleep!
    The fairy queen
    Bids you awake, and pity them that... More
  • Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
    And shall not evening call another star
    Out... More
  • Hear the soft bombs of dust
    It bursts against us at the chimney mouth,
    And at the eaves.... More
  • Helios makes all things right:
    night brands and chokes
    as if destruction broke
    over... More
  • Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
    The shooting stars attend thee; More
  • Here is what sometimes happened to me: after spending the first part of the night at my... More
  • His odes are like gems of pure ivory. They possess an ethereal and evanescent beauty like summer... More
  • How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to... More
  • How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
    Here will we sit, and let the sounds of... More
  • How weak and little is the light,
    All the universe of sight,
    Love and delight,
    Before... More
  • Hyde Park engendered shadows. The dying greenery of hurtbushes and larches, under the grey shells... More
  • I can see this is going to be a long fuckin’ night, convict. More
  • I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night... More
  • I have been one acquainted with the night.
    I have walked out in rain—and back in... More
  • I have every characteristic of a night person—a distaste for bosses, a hatred of the expected,... More
  • I heard the trailing garments of the Night
    Sweep through her marble halls!
    I saw her... More
  • I know if I wake up cold,

    and go out into the clear spring night,
    still dark and... More
  • I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
    A chicken hawk floats over, looking for... More
  • I lie and wait for morning, and the birds,
    The first steps going down the unswept... More
  • I shall be a benefactor if I conquer some realms from the night, if I report to the gazettes... More
  • I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
    What hours, O what black hours we have... More
  • In darkness, and with dangers compast round,
    And solitude; yet not alone, while... More
  • In love with the night mysterious. More
  • In such a night, when passing clouds give place,
    Or thinly veil the heaven’s mysterious... More
  • In such an armor he may rise and raid
    The dark cave after midnight, unafraid.... More
  • In the still of the night. More
  • It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
    The holy time is quiet as a Nun
    Breathless with... More
  • It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose. More
  • it is midnight
    no magical bewitching
    hour for me More
  • It is night,
    And it is vanity, and age
    Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
    The yellow... More
  • It is so very late that we
    May call it early by and by. Good night. More
  • It was a chilly winter’s night;
    And frost was glitt’ring on the ground,
    And evening... More
  • It was interesting, when awakened at midnight, to watch the grotesque and fiend-like forms and... More
  • It was night, in the lonesome October More
  • It’s like the doctor was just telling me, “Delirium is a disease of the night.” Good night. More
  • I’d rather
    as the first star:
    why am I here?
    why do I live in this... More
  • Light thickens, and the crow
    Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.
    Good things of day begin to... More
  • Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make. More
  • Macbeth. What is the night?
    Lady Macbeth. Almost at odds with morning, which is which. More
  • Mantled in grey, the dusk steals slowly in,
    Crossing the dead, dull fields with footsteps cold. More
  • Many men walk by day; few walk by night. More
  • Master the night nor serve the snowman’s brain
    That shapes each bushy item of the... More
  • Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of... More
  • My soul is now her day, my day her night,
    So I lie down, and so I rise; More
  • Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew
    Thee from report divine, and heard thy... More
  • Never were days yet called two
    But one night went betwixt. More
  • Night comes to the room of the world
    More
  • Night coming tenderly
    Black like me. More
  • Night hath closed all in her cloak,
    Twinkling stars love-thoughts provoke,
    Danger hence... More
  • Night is a curious child, wandering
    Between earth and sky, creeping
    In windows and doors,... More
  • Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its... More
  • Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. More
  • Night makes no difference ‘twixt the Priest and Clerk;
    Joan as my Lady is as good... More
  • Night sank: like flakes of silver fire
    The stars in one great shower came down; More
  • Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis... More
  • Night’s brittle song, silver-thin
    Shatters into a billion fragments
    Of quiet... More
  • Nor now the long light on the sea—
    And here face downward in the sun
    To feel how swift... More

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